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De : David Baptiste Chirot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> She
recounts walking with Picasso thrugh the streets of war time Paris (First
> World War) and seeing camouflaged tanks--
> "we have already done that" Picasso says--in reference to Cubism.
> Likewise Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto (1909) and other
> manifestos, works and actions of Italian Futurism preceded their
appearance
> as military forms, actions--deaths--in the First World War.
I'd add that the french army did asked to modern painters, amongst whom
happened to be cubists painters, like Andr� Mare, to work on the camouflage
of the tanks, and to conceive them in the "camouflage section" of the
Artillery corp as soon as the very beginning of 1915.
On this subject, see the "camouflages" exhibition of 1997 in the Historial
de la Grande Guerre of Peronne.
Avant-garde IS a military term, but cubists were modern painters... not
exactly the same world, isn't it?.
Bertrand.
